| Queen and Paul Rodgers set list | - Reaching Out
- Tie Your Mother Down
- I Want To Break Free
- Fat Bottomed Girls
- Wishing Well
- Crazy Little Thing Called Love
- Say Its Not True
- 39
- Love Of My Life
- Hammer To Fall
- I’m In Love With My Car
- Gtr Solo
- Last Horizon
- These Are The Days Of Our Lives
- Radio Ga Ga
- Can’t Get Enough
- A Kind Of Magic
- I Want It All
- Bohemian Rhapsody
----------------------- - Under Pressure
- All Right Now
- We Will Rock You
- We Are The Champions
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Fronted by the fantastic Paul Rodgers, Brian May and Roger Taylor were free to concentrate on their instruments. If anyone came looking for a Freddie replacement in Rodgers they would have left disappointed. Freddie can’t be replaced and this was not the intention. But what Rodgers did was add his own blues style to the rockier May and Taylor tracks (introduced by May as "the best white boy to sing the blues") and wisely left the operatic Queen hits for Freddie in rock history. But while the emphasis of the evening was Queen, there was still time for Bad Company and Free hits, an impromptu performance of Amarillo by Max and Paddy, as well as tributes to Freddie. Brian May (and the crowd) sang a touching Love of My Life and later, the original Bohemian Rhapsody track was accompanied by May and Taylor playing live, with old band video footage on the backdrop. The set wasn’t really much to look at but when you’re Queen, all you need is a big stack of speakers and four of the world’s largest man-operated spotlights, beaming light out across the sea of fans. This is stadium rock at its best, and let's face it, Queen wrote the manual. If anyone came to see Queen’s greatest hits live, they would not have been disappointed, but a decent tribute band would have provided a more authentic Queen experience, with a Freddie-esque front man. This gig was an opportunity to do something different with some of the original Queen material. And it worked. A truly memorable experience and a more than adequate substitute for those of us too young to have seen the full band live in their prime. Freddie would be proud. | 
